NB: the 6 cups organised between 1922 and 1927 and all won by British
clubs are not recognised as official by the IFA; between 1923 and
1927, another tournament ("Magen Shimshon") restricted to Maccabi
teams was organised as well and won by Maccabi Nes-Ziona in 1923
and 1924, Maccabi Tel-Aviv in 1925 and 1926 and Maccabi Haifa in 1927.
unofficial
1922 Lancashire Troop
1923 Air Fleet Ramla
1924 Royal Air Force bt Sarafand Hospital
1925 Royal Air Force
1926 Royal Air Force
1927 Royal Air Force 2-1 Air Fleet Ramla
official
1928 Hapoel Tel-Aviv ann Maccabi Hashmonai Jerusalem [*1]
1929 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 4-0 Maccabi Hashmonai Jerusalem
1930 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2-1 British Army 48'th Troop
1931 not played
1932 British Police awd Hapoel Haifa [*2]
1933 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 1-0 Hapoel Tel-Aviv
1934 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 3-2 Maccabi Tel-Aviv
1935 Maccabi Petah-Tikva 1-0 Hakoah Tel-Aviv
1936 not played
1937 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 3-0 Hapoel Drom Tel-Aviv
1938 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 2-1 Maccabi Tel-Aviv
1939 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 2-1 Maccabi Petah-Tikva
1940 Beitar Tel-Aviv 3-1 Maccabi Tel-Aviv
1941 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2-1 Hapoel Tel-Aviv
1942 Beitar Tel-Aviv 12-1 Maccabi Haifa
1943 Gunners 1-0 Hapoel Jerusalem [*3]
1944/45 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 1-0 Hapoel Petah-Tikva [*4]
1945 not played
1946 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 0-0 Hapoel Rishon Lezion
replay Maccabi Tel-Aviv 3-1 Hapoel Rishon Lezion
1947 Maccabi Tel-Aviv awd Beitar Tel-Aviv [*5]
[*1] Match finished 2-0 to Hapoel Tel-Aviv, but they played with an ineligible player;
cup was shared.
[*2] Abandoned at 0-1 to Hapoel Haifa who walked off when a penalty was awarded to
British Police; cup duly awarded to British Police.
[*3] the IFA does not list this tournament (known as "War Cup"), in spite of the fact
that a PFA representative handed Gunners (a British club) the trophy after the
final held on October 16, 1943 in Petah-Tikva.
[*4] the IFA does not list this tournament (known as "War Cup"); it was boycotted by
Beitar clubs; the final on January 13 was abandoned after 89 minutes with Hapoel
Tel-Aviv leading 1-0 when a Hapoel Petah-Tikva refused to leave the field after
being sent off for insulting the referee.
[*5] Abandoned at 3-2 to Maccabi Tel-Aviv, awarded 3-0.
1948/49 not played
1949/51 competition abandoned [*6]
1951/52 Maccabi Petah-Tikva 1-0 Maccabi Tel-Aviv
1952/53 not played
1953/54 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 4-0 Maccabi Nethanya
1954/55 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 3-1 Hapoel Petah-Tikva
1955/56 not played
1956/57 Hapoel Petah-Tikva 2-1 Maccabi Jaffa
1957/58 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2-0 Hapoel Haifa
1958/59 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 4-3 Hapoel Petah-Tikva
1959/60 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 2-1 Hapoel Petah-Tikva
1960/61 not played
1961/62 Maccabi Haifa 0-0 Maccabi Tel-Aviv [aet]
replay Maccabi Haifa 5-2 Maccabi Tel-Aviv
1962/63 Hapoel Haifa 1-0 Maccabi Haifa
1963/64 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 1-1 Hapoel Haifa [aet]
replay Maccabi Tel-Aviv 1-1 Hapoel Haifa [aet]
2d rep Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2-1 Hapoel Haifa
1964/65 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2-1 Bnei-Yehuda Tel-Aviv
1965/66 Hapoel Haifa 2-1 Shimshon Tel-Aviv
1966/67 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2-1 Hapoel Tel-Aviv
1967/68 Bnei-Yehuda Tel-Aviv 1-0 Hapoel Petah-Tikva
1968/69 Hakoah Maccabi Ramat-Gan 1-0 Maccabi Shearaim
1969/70 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2-1 Maccabi Nethanya
1970/71 Hakoah Maccabi Ramat-Gan 2-1 Maccabi Haifa
1971/72 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 1-0 Hapoel Jerusalem
1972/73 Hapoel Jerusalem 2-0 Hakoah Maccabi Ramat-Gan
1973/74 Hapoel Haifa 1-0 Hapoel Petah-Tikva [aet]
1974/75 Hapoel Kfar-Saba 3-1 Beitar Jerusalem
1975/76 Beitar Jerusalem 2-1 Maccabi Tel-Aviv
1976/77 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 1-0 Beitar Tel-Aviv
1977/78 Maccabi Nethanya 2-1 Bnei-Yehuda Tel-Aviv
1978/79 Beitar Jerusalem 2-1 Maccabi Tel-Aviv
1979/80 Hapoel Kfar-Saba 4-1 Maccabi Ramat-Amidar
1980/81 Bnei-Yehuda Tel-Aviv 2-2 Hapoel Tel-Aviv [aet, 4-3 pen]
1981/82 Hapoel Yehud 1-0 Hapoel Tel-Aviv
1982/83 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 3-2 Maccabi Tel-Aviv
1983/84 Hapoel Lod 0-0 Hapoel Beer-Sheva [aet, 3-2 pen]
1984/85 Beitar Jerusalem 1-0 Maccabi Haifa
1985/86 Beitar Jerusalem 2-1 Shimshon Tel-Aviv
1986/87 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 3-3 Maccabi Haifa [aet, 4-3 pen]
1987/88 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2-1 Hapoel Tel-Aviv
1988/89 Beitar Jerusalem 3-3 Maccabi Haifa [aet, 4-3 pen]
1989/90 Hapoel Kfar-Saba 1-0 Shimshon Tel-Aviv [aet]
1990/91 Maccabi Haifa 3-1 Hapoel Petah-Tikva
1991/92 Hapoel Petah-Tikva 3-1 Maccabi Tel-Aviv [aet]
1992/93 Maccabi Haifa 1-0 Maccabi Tel-Aviv
1993/94 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2-0 Hapoel Tel-Aviv
1994/95 Maccabi Haifa 2-0 Hapoel Haifa
1995/96 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 4-1 Hapoel Ironi Rishon-Lezion
1996/97 Hapoel Beer-sheva 1-0 Maccabi Tel-Aviv
1997/98 Maccabi Haifa 2-0 Hapoel Jerusalem [aet]
1998/99 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 1-1 Beitar Jerusalem [aet, 3-1 pen]
1999/00 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 2-2 Beitar Jerusalem [aet, 4-2 pen]
2000/01 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 3-0 Maccabi Petah-Tikva
2001/02 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 0-0 Maccabi Haifa [aet, 5-4 pen]
2002/03 Hapoel Ramat-Gan 1-1 Hapoel Beer-Sheva [aet, 5-4 pen]
2003/04 Hapoel Bnei Sakhnin 4-1 Hapoel Haifa
2004/05 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2-2 Maccabi Herzliya [aet, 5-3 pen]
2005/06 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 1-0 Bnei-Yehuda Tel-Aviv
2006/07 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 1-1 Hapoel Ashkelon [aet, 5-4 pen]
2007/08 Beitar Jerusalem 0-0 Hapoel Tel-Aviv [aet, 5-4 pen]
2008/09 Beitar Jerusalem 2-1 Maccabi Haifa
2009/10 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 3-1 Bnei-Yehuda Tel-Aviv
2010/11 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 1-0 Maccabi Haifa
[*6] Hapoel Haifa had reached final whereas the first leg of the second semifinal
between Hapoel Tel-Aviv and Beitar Tel-Aviv had finished 1-0 to Hapoel; the
second leg was never played and neither was the final
Number of Wins and Finals
winners finalists
Maccabi Tel-Aviv 22 33
Hapoel Tel-Aviv 15 23
Beitar Jerusalem 7 10
Maccabi Haifa 5 14
Hapoel Haifa 3 8
Hapoel Kfar-Saba 3 3
Hapoel Petah-Tikva 2 9
Bnei-Yehuda Tel-Aviv 2 6
Beitar Tel-Aviv 2 4
Maccabi Petah-Tikva 2 4
Hakoah Maccabi Ramat-Gan 2 3
Hapoel Jerusalem 1 4
Hapoel Beer-Sheva 1 3
Maccabi Nethanya 1 3
Maccabi Hashmonai Jerusalem 1 2
British Police 1 1
Gunners 1 1
Hapoel Bnei Sakhnin 1 1
Hapoel Lod 1 1
Hapoel Ramat-Gan 1 1
Hapoel Yehud 1 1
Shimshon Tel-Aviv 3
British Army 48'th Troop 1 [aka Northamptonshire]
Hakoah Tel-Aviv 1
Hapoel Ashkelon 1
Hapoel Drom Tel-Aviv 1 [aka Hapoel South Tel-Aviv]
Hapoel Ironi Rishon Lezion 1
Hapoel Rishon Lezion 1
Maccabi Herzliya 1
Maccabi Jaffa 1
Maccabi Ramat-Amidar 1
Maccabi Shearaim 1
Total 75 148
NB: 1928 cup shared; includes 1943 and 1944/45 War cups
Decade of Independence Cup
Held to celebrate 10 years of Israel independence.
First level tournament:
08/11/1958 Hapoel Haifa 2-0 Hapoel Jerusalem
[Itzhak Ashkenazi (2)]
Second level tournament:
15/11/1958 Hapoel Tiberias 7-1 Hapoel Beer-Sheva
25 Years of Independence Cup
Held to celebrate 25 years of Israel independence.
First level tournament: 16/06/1973 Maccabi Petah-Tikva 1-1 Maccabi Haifa [4-2 pen] Second level tournament: 09/06/1973 Hapoel Yehud 2-0 Hapoel Ramat-Gan
Partial source: [Sho 06] (thanks to Elisha Shohat)
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